Altium is previewing a new Actel® ProASIC®3E-based plug-in daughter
board for the NanoBoard platform, at ESC in San Jose (April 15-18).

Altium's Actel ProASIC3E daughter board provides an A3PE1500 FPGA in a
676-pin fine-pitch ball grid array (FBGA) package, and also features a
range of on-board memories for application use.

Optimized for performance, Actel's low-power, flash-based ProASIC3E FPGAs
are well suited to a wide range of end-product applications. Once
programmed, the ProASIC3E devices retain configuration, eliminating the
need for an external device to load configuration data at power-up, thereby
reducing cost, minimizing power consumption, increasing security, and
maximizing system reliability when using these devices with Altium's
Innovation Station. Further, the design environment makes it easy to bring
system functionality into the programmable space and rapidly create and
deploy 'soft' systems for production applications.

"Altium is providing the tools to help designers innovate in this new
marketplace by turning traditional electronics design inside out and moving
the soft functionality of a product to the center of the design process,"
said Nick Martin, CEO and founder of Altium. "The Altium Innovation Station
allows designers to unlock the potential of low-power, re-programmable
devices, such as Actel's flash-based ProASIC3E FPGA, to form a platform on
which to build intelligent, connected products that can be easily updated
in the field."

Altium Limited (ASX:
ALU) is the leading developer of electronic product
development solutions dedicated to unifying the different design
disciplines involved in electronics product development. Altium products
ensure all electronic engineers, designers, developers, and their
organizations, take maximum advantage of emerging design technologies to
bring smarter products to market faster and easier. Founded in 1985, Altium
has headquarters in Sydney, Australia, sales offices in the United States,
Europe, Japan, China, and resellers in all other major markets. For more
information, please visit
www.altium.com.

About Altium Innovation Station

The Altium Innovation Station combines the Altium Designer electronics
development software with Altium's NanoBoard range of reconfigurable
hardware development and deployment platforms to provide a single design
environment for engineering sustainable differentiation in electronics
design. Together, they allow electronics designers to create value and
innovation in their products by focusing on designing device intelligence
that is programmed rather than manufactured into a product.

Altium Designer's unified design environment means users can harness the
potential of the latest electronics technologies, and move to a 'soft'
design methodology without the need to acquire specialist programmable
device expertise. It unifies the design of the hardware, software and
programmable hardware by removing the disparate design flows of old design
paradigms.

Altium's Desktop NanoBoard range of reconfigurable hardware platforms
allows for both the development and deployment of device intelligence based
on programmable devices such as FPGAs. Altium's NanoBoard architecture is
unique in that it comes complete with a range of programmable devices
housed on plug-in FPGA daughter boards, and interchangeable peripheral
boards. The development NanoBoard provides a versatile reconfigurable
development platform independent of the choice of FPGAs. In the future,
deployment NanoBoards will allow rapid completion of the design process to
final hardware -- without the constraints of having to design physical
hardware early in the design process.

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